>===== Original Message From Jeff Smelser <jeffsmelser@ntgreek.net> =====
>The death of Benhadad...
>
>2 Ki 8:15 - ELABEN TO MACMA KAI EBAYEN EN TWi hUDATI KAI PERIEBALEN EPI TO
>PROSWPON AUTOU KAI APEQANEN
>
>"he took the MACMA and dipped (it) in water and wrapped (it) around his
>face, and he died"
>
>I don't find MACMA in BDAG or in LSJ at Perseus. Is this just an isolated,
>rough transliteration from the Hebrew?

Here's the entry from A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint (Lust,
Eynikel, Hauspie), with bracketed expansions on my part: